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Turbulent cascades characterize the transfer of energy injected by a random force at large scales towards the small scales. In hydrodynamic turbulence, when the Reynolds number is large, the velocity field of the fluid becomes irregular and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Gabriel B. Apolinário , Geoffrey Beck , Laurent Chevillard , Isabelle Gallagher , Ricardo Grande

We investigate the turbulence below a quasi-flat free surface, focusing on the energy transport in space and across scales. We leverage a large zero-mean-flow tank where homogeneous turbulence is generated by randomly actuated jets. A wide…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-18 Daniel J. Ruth , Filippo Coletti

Instabilities of fluid flows often generate turbulence. Using extensive direct numerical simulations, we study two-dimensional turbulence driven by a wavenumber-localised instability superposed on stochastic forcing, in contrast to previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Adrian van Kan , Benjamin Favier , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

Turbulence is an out-of-equilibrium flow state that is characterised by nonzero net fluxes of kinetic energy between different scales of the flow. These fluxes play a crucial role in the formation of characteristic flow structures in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Youri H. Lemm , Xander M. de Wit , Rudie P. J. Kunnen

We study rapidly rotating turbulent flows in a highly elongated domain using an asymptotic expansion at simultaneously low Rossby number $Ro\ll 1$ and large domain height compared to the energy injection scale, $h=H/\ell_{in}\gg 1$. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Adrian van Kan , Alexandros Alexakis

We point out some similitudes between the statistics of high Reynolds number turbulence and critical phenomena. An analogy is developed for two-dimensional decaying flows, in particular by studying the scaling properties of the two-point…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Denis Boyer

The direction and magnitude of energy transfer between turbulence scale brought about by external forcing on a turbulent boundary layer are uncovered through the bispectrum, bicoherence, and biphase. The bispectrum is a third-order,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Clayton P. Byers , Subrahmanyam Duvvuri

We present experimental evidence for a double cascade of kinetic energy in a statistically stationary rotating turbulence experiment. Turbulence is generated by a set of vertical flaps which continuously injects velocity fluctuations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Antoine Campagne , Basile Gallet , Frédéric Moisy , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

We study numerically the propagation of a hot thermal transient through a U-bend via an ensemble of wall-resolved large eddy simulations. Conjugate heat transfer between fluid and solid domains is accounted for. The flow is in a fully…

We present theory of two-dimensional turbulence excited by an external force in thin fluid films on scales larger than the film thickness. The principal feature of two-dimensional turbulence is the tendency of producing motions of larger…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-07 Igor V. Kolokolov , Vladimir V. Lebedev

We consider turbulence in the Gross-Pitaevsky model and study the creation of a coherent condensate via an inverse cascade originated at small scales. The growth of the condensate leads to a spontaneous breakdown of symmetries of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-06 Natalia Vladimirova , Stanislav Derevyanko , Gregory Falkovich

The link to the online abstract of this manuscript, accepted in Phys. Rev. Fluids, is https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/accepted/32074S4aH8b1c608e19768b42571f9001086a3f44. A subcritical route to turbulence via purely quasi-two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-23 Christopher J. Camobreco , Alban Pothérat , Gregory J. Sheard

A cylindrical and inclined jet in crossflow is studied under two distinct velocity ratios, $r=1$ and $r=2$, using highly resolved large eddy simulations (LES). First, an investigation of turbulent scalar mixing sheds light onto the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-30 Pedro M. Milani , Julia Ling , John K. Eaton

Ultrametric structure of the energy cascade process in a dynamical model of turbulence is studied. The tree model we use can be viewed as an approximated one-dimensional truncation of the wavelets resolved Navier-Stokes dynamics. Varying…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , E. Trovatore

Turbulent flows are observed in low-Reynolds active fluids. They are intrinsically different from the classical inertial turbulence and behave distinctively in two- and three-dimensions. Understanding the behaviors of this new type of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-01 Da Wei , Yaochen Yang , Xuefeng Wei , Ramin Golestanian , Ming Li , Fanlong Meng , Yi Peng

In this paper the evolution of a binary mixture in a thin-film geometry with a wall at the top and bottom is considered. By bringing the mixture into its miscibility gap so that no spinodal decomposition occurs in the bulk, a slight…

By analyzing hot-wire velocity data taken in an open channel flow, an unambiguous definition of surface-layer thickness is here provided in terms of the cross-over scale between backward and forward energy fluxes. It is shown that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-18 Guido Troiani , Francesco Cioffi , Angelo Olivieri , Carlo Massimo Casciola

Turbulent mixing layers in nature are often characterized by the presence of a mean shear and an unstable buoyancy gradient between two streams of different velocity. Depending on the relative strength of shear versus buoyancy, either the…

When a turbulent Bose-Einstein condensate is driven out-of-equilibrium at a scale much smaller than the system size, nonlinear wave interactions transfer particles towards large scales in an inverse cascade process. In this work, we study…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Ying Zhu , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

Finite-temperature quantum turbulence is often described in terms of two immiscible fluids that can flow with a non-zero mean relative velocity. Such out-of-equilibrium state is known as counterflow superfluid turbulence. We report here the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-18 Juan Ignacio Polanco , Giorgio Krstulovic